1 February 2017. Two excellence students from the School of Chemical Engineering managed to secure a scholarship for each of them under the programme offered by the Macro Dimension Concrete Sdn. Bhd. (MDC). Rajaviknesswaran Singaravelan and Kalaivani Rangasamy, both from the second year’s Chemical Engineering, Bachelor Degree attended the ceremony, which was held at the MDC headquarters in Sungai Petani, Kedah. The other three out of five students were each from the School of Civil Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering and School of Housing, Building and Planning, (HBP).

19 January 2017, The School of Chemical Engineering received two representatives from Osaka University for an initial discussion to establish a dual-degree programme at the doctoral degree level, (PhD.).

16 November 2016, the School of Chemical Engineering is very honoured to receive three out of five of its Industry Advisory Panels (IAP) to the Engineering Campus in an annual IAP meeting to discuss the issues pertaining the requirements as well as revision of the curriculum of the Chemical Engineering programme offered by USM.

Universiti Sains Malaysia Chem-E-Car Competition 2016 has attracted in total 14 teams comprises of Year One to Year Three, Chemical Engineering undergraduates. The competition was held on 9th Nov 2016 (Wednesday) at the Engineering Campus Main Hall, which started at 2.00 pm. The Chemical Engineering annual competition this year was organized by a group of undergraduate students spearheaded by Mr. Low Ying Kai and co-supported by the Chemical Engineering Student Society (ChESS). The objective of the competition is mainly to promote the use of sustainable energy as an alternative fuel, as a substitute to the conventional petroleum-based fuel.